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Medical Xpress / Why some cancer therapies don't work for all patients: A tumor backup survival pathway

Drugs that block enzymes called tyrosine kinases are among the most effective targeted therapies for cancer. However, they typically work for only 40% to 80% of the patients who would be expected to respond to them. In a ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / More money, more problems? Study links name, image and likeness commitment to rising athlete stress

For decades, the college athlete's world has been split between the classroom and the playing field––and now there's a third role: chief marketing officer. Name, image and likeness policies provide athletes income through ...

Mar 27, 2026
Phys.org / Barcelona Metropolitan Area has lost more than 70% of agricultural land in recent decades, finds study

Peri-urban agriculture in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) is in a critical situation after decades of decline. A new study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma ...

Mar 27, 2026
Phys.org / NASA's Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon: The long road to launch

NASA is once again shooting for the moon, for the first time since the 1970s. As soon as April 2026, NASA will launch its Artemis II mission, using the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket to send a crewed spacecraft, called ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / A captive chimp's instrumental performances hint at the evolution of vocal externalization

In February 2023, a resident at Kyoto University's Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior—EHUB—treated researchers to a spontaneous musical performance. Ayumu, a 26-year-old male chimpanzee, removed floorboards ...

Mar 25, 2026
Tech Xplore / Nvidia's new AI tool is giving female game characters a makeover—and gamers are pushing back

Last week leading chipmaker Nvidia announced DLSS-5 (Deep Learning Super Sampling), a new artificial intelligence (AI) rendering tool it describes as a "breakthrough in visual fidelity for games." The software takes low-resolution ...

Mar 27, 2026
Phys.org / Urban blue tits use discarded cigarette butts to protect their nests, study suggests

Discarded litter not only makes our streets and neighborhoods look untidy, but it can also pose a significant risk to wildlife. However, in a surprising development, a study published in the journal Animal Behaviour reports ...

Mar 23, 2026
Phys.org / Limiting space junk's threat by predicting its mess in the Earth-moon neighborhood

Debris from moonbound spacecraft has left craters on the lunar surface since the U.S. Apollo missions. But the moon is not used to being surrounded by debris. With an expected resurgence in lunar missions in the coming years, ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / 'Cool' detectors cut neutrino mass upper limit by an order of magnitude

Their mass is extremely low, but how light are neutrinos really? A collaboration comprising German and international research groups has optimized its experiments to determine the mass of these "ghost particles." In doing ...

Mar 25, 2026
Medical Xpress / Food fortification already prevents 7 billion nutrient gaps annually, but we could triple its impact

Fortifying staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals is a cheap and effective way to ensure that people have access to nutrients that may be lacking in their normal diets. These efforts have countered debilitating ...

Mar 26, 2026
Phys.org / Wet lab research and deep machine learning identify a key driver of long-term inflammatory memory

One of the most puzzling aspects of common chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis is how they become chronic. What allows an ongoing condition to stay dormant for months or even years, then seemingly spring ...

Mar 26, 2026
Medical Xpress / Population-based lung cancer screening can reduce mortality in people who have never smoked, study shows

New evidence from a Chinese cohort presented at the European Lung Cancer Congress (ELCC) 2026 shows that one-time low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening can significantly reduce lung cancer mortality in a non–risk ...

Mar 27, 2026